Tasting Drakness

Chapter 32

Tobias POV

We had just finished eating dinner, yet I was craving something else. Someone else. I never should have fed on Aleera. I was only allowed to feed on Lycus and Darius, and I knew the reason for it, but her blood had been calling me from the moment I laid eyes on her. I told myself just a taste, but I knew I was done for when I fed on her when I tried to take the shadows from her.

Lycus watched me; he had been looking at me strangely all day since he found me arguing with Aleera.

“I need to check the wards in the forest. Do you want to come? ” Darius asked, getting up from his seat.

“No, I will wait here,” I told him. He tilted his head to the side, examining me. I always went with him, and I knew he was suspicious of me too. They all were. My hunger was insatiable, one of the reasons I was only to strictly feed on Lycus and Darius. They could fight me off. Kalen and Aleera, not so much if I lost control.

“When did you last feed? You seem to be in a mood,” Darius asked before his eyes flicked to Lycus.

“Earlier off me, twice actually,” Lycus answered, and Darius turned his gaze back to me, and I noticed Kalen get up to head through the bathroom, and I growled in warning at him.

“Sit Kalen, I will take you to see her later,” I told him, and he sighed but sat back on the bed, yet Darius still didn’t leave.

“Are you struggling since feeding on her the other night?” Darius asked me, and I shook my head.

“No, I am just drained,” I lied. He didn’t look like he believed me, but I also knew Darius had an obsession with the wards, and my mood wouldn’t keep him here much longer; I just needed to wait him out.

“Lycus, do you want to come?” Darius turned and asked him.

“Can I?” Kalen asked him excitedly.

“I thought you wanted to see Aleera?”

come back

is back and take Kalen to see her,” I told them, and Kalen’s eyes lit up. My lips quirked in the corners loving his excitement, and I wished he always looked so happy. Why couldn’t we be enough for him? Why

Tobias. He

and he sighed and rubbed his temples. Kalen pouted at him and gave him a pleading look and I knew Darius was going to sway. He

allow her to hurt him, understanding that

him with her, and don’t let

to bring her in here?” I asked him. I didn’t think he was serious about that. Darius looked away, and I

and the taste of her blood. I hated her more for wanting her,

Lycus groaned, and I know he hated leaving Kalen. Nighttime was pretty much the only time we were

together long before Darius, and I joined the party. At first, the idea of marking them disgusted me, and I could have lived without

and Darius and I cloaked her, which was stupid o nour part, we cloaked her so well we couldn’t even

to a permanent shield

lead after lead. We weren’t sure powersharing was possible without our keeper, not until

turn made Kalen call on us. I still remembered how filthy and skinny they both were, and

we came to them and brought them back here. Just before learning Aleera’s parents tried to kill her, we felt her distress. How we felt her was beyond all of our reasoning. It was almost like she called o nus. She wasn’t bonded to us yet, but we all had an inkling she was in trouble, and our marks

power share. We walked in on Lycus and Kalen fucking and felt the magnitude of power in the air, s o Darius did some research, and we learned by marking each other

was dead. Ours wasn’t, so it caused

back to square one, but Lycus and Kalen continued having power somehow when we realized how they were transferring

were forced to forge the bond. Kalen and Lycus were both patient and never pushed us past our comfort zones too much. When eventually, Darius got injured, protecting me from bloodhounds, we had refused for years to share power the way Lycus and Kalen did. But while hunting for her, we were set upon by the hounds, and neither of us had enough ability to take them down, forcing us

that, it became a non-issue. As long as nothing went near my ass, I was okay with it. Well, for the first few years until the bond forged entirely, and I started craving them all, that craving

had particular gifts. We all found ourselves more inclined toward him. When we

you laughing at?” Kalen asked,

together,” I told him, and Kalen smiled deviously before crawling to the edge of the